INTERDISCIPLINARY (Natural Resources Specialist/Environmental Engineer/General physical Science)

Full Job Description

You will serve as a Navy On-Scene (Navy OSC) in the Environmental Division, Regional Environmental Coordinator (REC) Branch of COMNAVREG SE JAX.

This position has a selective placement factor for those applying to the Environmental Engineering series (0819) that will be used to screen out ineligible candidates.

The selective placement factor is: You must currently be a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

In addition to the Basic Requirements for this position, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: 1) Managing spill response equipment requirements, resources, allocations, and programming for an organization; 2) Planning, designing, facilitating, or participating in preparedness and response exercises for multiple regulated facilities; 3) Providing expertise in the selection, operation, and/or procurement of spill response equipment utilized in the environmental emergency response industry; 4) Applying Incident Command System (ICS) in notional or real-world incidents with experience as an Incident Commander, any Command Staff position, Section Chief, or Deputy Section Chief; 5) Responding to natural or man-made disasters, discharges of oil, releases of hazardous substances, or other incidents with significant environmental impacts; 6) Communicating technical information to various audiences; and 7) Developing contingency plans (CONPLAN) and concept of operations (CONOPS) concerning oil and/or hazardous substances.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/environmental-engineering-series-0819/ https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1300/general-physical-science-series-1301/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

• You will serve as the Navy On-Scene Coordinator and Incident Commander for pollution response incidents involving any Navy or USMC asset on or off installations throughout the Area of Responsibility for Commander Navy Region Southeast (CNRSE).
• You will be on-call to respond on an emergency basis, with no advance notice, to the accidental or deliberate release of oil or hazardous substances throughout the AOR.
• You will be responsible for providing independent assessments of environmental incidents and determine the appropriate emergency response actions required.
• You will ensure processes are in place to promptly mobilize emergency response contractors during major incidents impacting the environment.
• You will review contract actions and/or deliverables to ensure the validity, completeness, and acceptability to the Navy to resolve all stakeholder liabilities.
• You will maintain collaborative partnerships with other Federal and State agency representatives involved in environmental emergency response actions along with external non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
• You will collaborate with other Federal On-Scene Coordinators (FOSC’s) through active participation in Regional Response Teams (RRTs) throughout the AOR.
• You will oversee the budgeting, procurement, maintenance, and life-cycle replacement of approximately $16 million in spill response equipment resources at installations across the CNRSE AOR.
• You will coordinate and ensure response equipment training, Incident Command System courses, and tabletop/functional exercises (TTX’s/FTX’s) are delivered to Facility Response Teams and Incident Management Teams to promote response readiness.
• You will assume the role of on-scene IC during all facility worst case discharge (WCD) scenarios during National Preparedness for Response Exercise Program (PREP) exercises.
• You will lead and mentor junior OSC staff members.
• You will oversee all reportable discharges or releases of oil and hazardous substances (OHS) to ensure proper reporting, human health is protected, and environmental impacts are effectively mitigated.
• You will oversee all reportable discharges or releases of oil and hazardous substances (OHS) to ensure adverse contamination is properly remediated, and cultural/natural resources are protected or restored to pre-existing conditions.